Wiesel's Reasons
Elie Wiesel chose to write the novel Night for a variety of reasons. The main reason is because of responsibility. Wiesel feels like it is his job to inform people of the Holocaust while he is still alive. Few Holocaust survivors are still living and it is important that people have information about the horrible genocide recorded. Elie Wiesel also wrote the book so that history does not repeat itself. People can learn how the genocide began and how to prevent it from beginning again. With Wiesel’s stories and facts about the Holocaust we continue to learn more and more about the genocide that began in nineteen ninety four.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Joseph Goebbels was one of the most influential people in Germany and was appointed by Hitler to be the head of propaganda.
1) Set up Reich Chamber of Commerce
2) Organized book burnings
3) Made severe punishments
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
Seven other groups that were targeted were the Roman gypsies, people with disabilities, Pole, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah witnesses, and homosexuals.
The groups died.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
The three types of ghettos were the open ghettos, closed ghettos, and destruction ghettos. Closed ghettos were closed by gates and barb wire sop that no one could escape where I open ghettos just had boundaries and rules about entering and leaving and then destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off where people died within almost six weeks. These ghettos were supposed to organize the Jews into different groups.
Life was miserable and horrid in the ghettos where people would sit and starve and watch friends and family die.
Towards the end of the war Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
Twenty-one defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials and they represented the Nazi’s.
The International Military Tribunal decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Death Camps Death Camps
Eerie and gloomy
Sickening, disgusting,revolting
Like the smell of rubbish and as filthy as dirt
A bed of mortality
Mourning
To be remembered for a lifetime
Table of Contents
Lucy BS. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Wiesel's ReasonsElie Wiesel chose to write the novel Night for a variety of reasons. The main reason is because of responsibility. Wiesel feels like it is his job to inform people of the Holocaust while he is still alive. Few Holocaust survivors are still living and it is important that people have information about the horrible genocide recorded. Elie Wiesel also wrote the book so that history does not repeat itself. People can learn how the genocide began and how to prevent it from beginning again. With Wiesel’s stories and facts about the Holocaust we continue to learn more and more about the genocide that began in nineteen ninety four.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web SearchBackground Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
1) Set up Reich Chamber of Commerce
2) Organized book burnings
3) Made severe punishments
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
High-ranking Nazis and German government officials attended the Wannsee Conference to decide “ Final Solution of the Jewish Question”.
The final solution was to exterminate the all Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The groups died.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
Life was miserable and horrid in the ghettos where people would sit and starve and watch friends and family die.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
Throughout the camps there was sickness and despair. People were starving and barley dressed.
To exterminate the Jews the Nazis used gas chambers, guns, and ovens.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Towards the end of the war Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
Twenty-one defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials and they represented the Nazi’s.
The International Military Tribunal decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Death CampsDeath Camps
Eerie and gloomy
Sickening, disgusting,revolting
Like the smell of rubbish and as filthy as dirt
A bed of mortality
Mourning
To be remembered for a lifetime